Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Public Sector Undertakings and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 gained 0.94%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index climbed 1.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were ICICI Bank Ltd (NS:ICBK), which rose 5.01% or 19.85 points to trade at 415.95 at the close. Nestle India Ltd (NS:NEST) added 4.47% or 689.70 points to end at 16119.95 and AXIS Bank Ltd (NS:AXBK) was up 4.20% or 19.85 points to 492.25 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eicher Motors Ltd. (NS:EICH), which lost 3.04% or 69.05 points to trade at 2200.85 in late trade. Hero MotoCorp Ltd (NS:HROM) declined 2.70% or 90.45 points to end at 3256.00 and Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL) shed 2.36% or 18.45 points to 763.90.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were ICICI Bank Ltd (BO:ICBK) which rose 5.00% to 415.75, Nestle India Ltd (BO:NEST) which was up 4.70% to settle at 16160.00 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which gained 4.21% to close at 204.05.
The worst performers were Bajaj Auto Ltd (BO:BAJA) which was down 1.86% to 2988.00 in late trade, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which lost 1.76% to settle at 2714.00 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 1.38% to 396.00 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 927 to 671 and 95 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1418 rose and 1138 declined, while 152 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was up 0.80% to 21.8175.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.44% or 8.45 to $1914.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.68% or 0.28 to hit $40.84 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.70% or 0.30 to trade at $42.63 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.17% to 73.320, while EUR/INR rose 0.16% to 86.2090.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 93.422.